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The forty-sixth state iii the Union, Okla- 
homa, embraces all the country formerly in- 
cluded in the Indian Territory and in Okla- 
homa Territory, and in area is larger than 
Missouri. The population has increased 
from 790,391 in 1900 to 1,657,155 persons in 
1910, showing an increase of 866,764 or 
109.7 per cent. The taxable wealth is now 
about $800,000,000, and the value of farm 
and mineral products is more than $150,000,- 
000 per annum. The new state has 5,000 
miles of railroad, 250,000 farms, more than 
1,700 postoffices and ninety or more towns 
and cities having more than 1,000 inhabi- 
tants. 

The meanifig of the name Oklahoma, as 
explained by several authorities, is "Red 
People," being composed of two pure Choc- 
taw words, "Okla," meaning people, and 
"homma," red. In a treaty made in 1866 
between the Federal Government and the 
commissioners appointed by the Choctaw, 
Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Creek 
Tribes, this name for the territory was 
agreed upon, and under this name it became 
a state. 

Eastern Oklahoma is the old Indian Ter- 
ritory, which borders on Missouri, Kansas 
and Arkansas, and is the timbered part of 
the state. About 1810 the emigration of 
the Cherokee Indians to the Indian Terri- 
tory began, and between 1830 and 1840 the 
remainder of the Cherokees, the Creeks, 
Choctaws, Chickasaws and Seminoles moved 
there from their old homes in Georgia, Flor- 
ida, the Carolinas and Alabama. For half 
a century the Federal Government attempt- 
ed to hold the territory intact for the sev- 
eral Indian tribes, but eventually the time 
arrived when it became necessary to enter 
into new treaties, so as to make available 
for white settlement part of the country 
held under grants in fee simple by the In- 
dian tribes. The first lands became avail- 
able about twenty years ago, and since that 
time more than a million people from the 
older states found homes in the western 
half, Oklahoma Territory. In Eastern Okla- 
homa the lands were allotted to the mem- 
bers of the tribes in severalty under certain 
restrictions, which, since 1908, have been 
in a large degree removed. During the 
years 1910-11, the residue or unallotted 
tribal lands have been offered for sale at 
auction by the Government, and with the 



exception of the homesteads occupied by 
the Indians nearly all lands in Eastern 
Oklahoma have become available for settle- 
ment. 

The Kansas City Southern Railway tra- 
verses Eastern Oklahoma in a northerly 
and southerly direction, passing almost en- 
tirely through timbered country. The pre- 
vailing varieties of timbers are hardwoods, 
consisting of white oak, red oak, black 
jiick, post oak, cottonwood, sycamore, wal- 
iiut, elm, ash, etc., in the counties north of 
the Arkansas River, and the same timbers 
with fine merchantable pine and large quan- 
tities of gum south of this river. There are 
in all over one million acres of fine mer- 
chantable timber, most of which are lo- 
cated near the Arkansas state line. 

Eastern Oklahoma is rich in minerals, 
which, in time, will be fully developed. 
Over and above ten million dollars have 
been expended in the development of the 
oil fields, and new experimental work is 
being carried on in many places. At Po- 
teau, on the K. C. S. Ry., immense gas wells 
have been developed and borings for oil 
and gas are being made at various points. 
The full extent of the oil and gas tield is 
not yet known. The coal fields of Okla- 
homa are enormous in extent, and lie on 
both sides of the Arkansas River. There 
are in operation about 150 mines, and the 
annual production is over and above 3,000,- 
000 tons. Oklahoma coal is of the highest 
grade, semi-anthracite steam coal com- 
manding the best prices. It usually runs in 
layers from four to seven feet thick. 
Along the K. C. S. Ry. out-croppings have 
been found at Poteau, Sallisaw, Spiro. 
Panama, Howe, Heavener and other places, 
but only a comparatively small part of 
the coal area is being mined. Congress has 
reserved from allotment 444,000 acres of 
coal lands, and these will not be available 
for development until the Government pro- 
vides for their proper disposition. Good 
lime and sandstone are abundant in many 
places, and near Ballard, Westville, Still- 
well, ets., limestone is available in large 
quantity. Marble occurs in immense quan- 
tity at Marble City and Bunch on the K. C. 
S. Ry., and is now being quarried more 
or less extensively. The marble is found 
in four or five different colors, and 
takes a very high polish. Asphalt Is 




Sallis<i>v Creek at Marble City. Oklahoma 



found in quantity in I^e Flore and other 
counties, and near Page, Okla., is a 
deposit of grahamite, a form of asphalt 
largely ^d in the manufacture of roof- 
ing, 23 feet in thickness. Vanadium, a 
mineral used in toughening steel, is found 
with this grahamite. Shales and clays suit- 
able for the manufacturfc of brick, pottery, 
drain tile and other purposes are abund- 
ant at many places, and at Spiro, Poteau, 
Panama, Howe, Heavener, etc., are in close 
, ->ximity to cheap fuel, either coal or gas or 
bf i. Lead and zinc ores have been found 
nejr Westville and Still well, Okla., and in 
McC irtain County near Gillham, Ark., is a 
miTeral belt some ten miles wide contain- 
in,j large veins of lead and zinc, antimony, 
manganese, copper and iron. None of these 
veins have been fully developed, but enough 
prospecting work has been done to demon- 
strate that these ores are present in com- 
mercial quantity 

The climate of Eastern Oklahoma is mild 
and pleasant in winter, cold weather rarely 
setting in before January. There is occa- 
sionally a snowfall, but the snow usually 
disappears in a few days. Sharp frosts oc- 
cur in January and February, and occa- 
sionally there will be a fs-w successive days 
of freezing weather, but these occur only 
at long intervals, and do little damage, ex- 
cept when they come very late in the spring. 
The summer months as a rule are pleasant, 
and the killing heat of the northern states 
is unknown. Heat prostrations never occur, 
and the nights are always cool enough to 
insure sleep and rest. The thirty-seventh 
parallel of latitude marks the extreme 



northern boundary of Oklahoma, while the 
irregular boundary on the south, marked by 
Red River, in places nearly reaches the 
thirty-third parallel. In longitude the ex- 
tremes are from about 94^ to 98 degrees. 
These boundaries indicate that Eastern Ok- 
lahoma is well below the line of hard freez- 
ing, and well east of the drought line, or 
the hundredth meridian. The altitude along 
the K. C. S. Ry. in Oklahoma varies from 
490 feel to 1.135 feet 

In Eastern Oklahoma (formerly the In- 
dian Territory) there is considerable di- 
versity in the soils. Along the eastern 
border the country is more or less undu- 
lating and generally timbered. Further 
west prairie country predominates and 
there is more uniformity in the character of 
the soils. All the soils are fertile, varying 
ill degree according to location. The an- 
nual rainfall is between thirty-five and 
fnrtv-fivp inrhes. usually wpII distributed 
throughout the year. The yield per acre of 
wheat is as great as anywhere, and the 
corn produced is excellent in quality and 
great in yield. The native pasturage is 
among the best in the world, and the crops 
of alfalfa and other forage made each year 
are enormous in quantity. No better coun- 
try can be found for the profitable raising 
of live stock and in the production of fine 
fruit, berries and truck, Eastern Oklahoma 
holds its own with any other section of the 
country. 

Eastern Oklahoma offers splendid induce- 
ments to the stock raiser in its mild cli- 
mate, Its abundance of pure water and the 
luxuriant growth of natural grasses. For- 



age of every kind, including the clovers, al- 
falfa and cowpeas, is easily and cheaply 
grown. The location is such that the 
great markets like Kansas Ciiy, St. i^ouis, 
Omaha or Chicago can be quickly reached. 
All conditions are favorable to profitable 
dairying, and nowhere is there a better mar- 
ket for dairy products than in Oklahoma 
itself, for Oklahoma buys in the northern 
states several million dollars worth of but- 
ter, which should and could be made at 
home. There is no better location any- 
where for poultry and egg production. The 
climatic conditions are excellent, the home 
market very good, and the cities of Kansas 
City and St. Louis within a twenty-four 
hours' run. 

The principal field crops grown are wheat, 
which averages about 22 bushels to the acre, 
and yields up to forty bushels. The aver- 
age Oklahoma crop amounts to 21,500,000 
bushels, the greater part, however, being 
produced in the western part of the state. 
Corn is the greatest crop grown in the 
state, yielding from 30 to 80 bushels to the 
acre. The annual production of the whole 
state is about 135,000,000 bushels, sometimes 
more, sometimes less. Broom corn is a 
great staple crop, -and is grown in many 
counties. Every county in the state pro- 
duces cotton, and the value of the crop 
annually is about $35,000,000. The yield is 
from half a bale to a bale to the acre. Spiro, 
Sallisaw, Poteau, on the Kansas City South- 
ern Railway, handle from 10,000 to 15,000 
bales each. Alfalfa is grown more or less 



extensively on the bottom lands in all parts 
of Eastern Oklahoma, and is a highly valu- 
able crop. Cowpeas are next in favor,, and 
are practically grown everywhere for the 
purpose of securing a good forage or hay, 
as well as fertilizing the soil. The red rust- 
proof oats is a common field crop in Okla- 
homa, which yields from forty to eighty and 
sometimes 100 bushels to the acre. The 
grain produced is of superior quality. Sor- 
ghum and Kaffir corn are grown extensively 
in Western Oklahoma. Sorghum grown for 
forage in Eastern Oklahoma is harvested 
when in full foliage, and is helpful in mak- 
ing a balanced ration for live stock, in con- 
nection with grain and hay. Smaller quan- 
tities are produced for making syrup, with 
which most farms are supplied. 

Fruit and truck growing as an industry 
nas not been fully developed, though th« 
possibilities in this direction are very great. 
The unsettled condition of land titles de- 
terred many from planting orchards or 
making extensive permanent improvements 
until the Government arranged for the 
proper disposition of the lands. This has 
now been done, and there is nothing in the 
way now to prevent the making t erma- 
nent improvements. In the Arkansas Val- 
ley near Sallisaw, Spiro and other points 
convenient to railway transportation, potato 
culture has assumed very large proportions. 
The shipments of potatoes have reached 
1,000 cars per annum, though the ordinary 
shipments, one year with another, run from 
600 to 900 carloads. The crop is produced 
twice a year on the same land. Peach o," 




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Farm Scene, Ballard, Oklahoma 



chards of large area were planted eight or 
ten years ago near Sallisaw, Spiro and Po- 
teau, and have yielded fine crops with con- 
siderable regularity. All the standard va- 
rieties of apples yield well, and the culti- 
vation of strawberries is becoming an im- 
portant business. Watermelons, and canta- 
loupes yield bountiful crops, and are very 
profitable. Most railway stations ship 
melons and cantaloupes in carload lots. 
Fruit and truck growers' associations have 
been formed at many points, and more truck 
than ever before is now produced, consist- 



ing in the main of sweet potatoes, Irish 
potatoes, onions, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, 
asparagus, radishes, tomatoes, egg plant, 
beans, carrots, etc. 

The cultivation of peanuts is receiving 
considerable attention. It is a crop which 
will grow on any kind of a soil, and will 
yield from 50 to 75 bushels to the acre, sell- 
ing ordinarily for 50 cents to $1 per bushel. 
The crop is frequently grown for hog food, 
acting incidentally as a fertilizer in the 
same manner as does the cowpea and other 
legumes. 




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Making Hay at Heavcner. Oklahoma 



Indian Lands 



Western Oklahoma was opened to settle- 
ment by whites prior to 1900, and was a 
well settled territory before an agreement 
was reached by the National Government 
w^ith the Five Civilized Tribes in the In- 
dian Territory, concerning the allotment of 
tribal lands among the members of the 
tribes. In 1904 a final conclusion was 
reached, and the allotment of land to indi- 
viduals began. The allotments were com- 
pleted in 1906, and the total acreage of 
tribal lands allotted to individual Indians 
was 19,511,889 acres, leaving a surplus of 
1,600,000 acres, which was not allotted, 444,- 
000 acres of coal lands segregated for fu- 
ture disposition, and a large forest reserve. 
The allotted lands were under certain re- 
strictions pertaining to the sale thereof, but 
most of these have since been removed. 
Sales of allotted lands are now made once 
or twice a month through the U. S. Indian 
agent at Muskogee, and lists of lands of- 
fered for sale can be obtained by address- 
ing the U. S. Indian agent. The residue of 
the Indian lands, 1,600,000 acres, more or 
less, the unallotted lands are now being 
sold under regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Interior. The title to all of 
this unallotted land is perfect. The chain 
of title runs from the grant of the United 
States to the Indian tribe, and the convey- 



ance of the tribe by its chief or governor, 
with the official approval of the Secretary 
of the Interior to the purchaser. Most of 
this land is in small tracts, but there are 
also many large tracts, particularly in the 
Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations. These 
lands are being sold at auction to the high- 
est bidder. 

During the month of February, 1912, the 
Carter-Owen Bill was passed by Congress, 
authorizing the sale of the surface of the 
segregated coal and asphalt lands after 
proper classification and appraisement has 
been made. The sales will be at auction 
and will be held under the rules and regu- 
lations provided by the Secretary of the In- 
terior. All mineral rights are reserved for 
the benefit of the tribes. The commissioner 
of the Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, 
Okla., will be pleased to furnish any de- 
sired information. 

Land values in Oklahoma along the line 
of the Kansas City Southern Railway range 
in price from six to forty dollars per acre, 
as some of the lands are highly improved. 
The towns of Westville. Stilwell, Marble 
City, Sallisaw, Gans, Spiro, Poteau, Howe, 
Page, Heavener, are surrounded by lands' 
of good quality, and a homeseeker will not 
go amiss by visiting them and inspecting 
the adjacent country. 



Some Good Oklahoma Tow^ns on the Kansas 
City Southern Railway 



Ballard, Oklahoma. — This is a new town 
in Adair County, platted in 1910, is 238 
miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and 21 
miles north of Stilwell, Okla., The popu- 
lation is 300 and the altitude above sea level 
974 feet. There are in the town at present 
two general stores, hotel, postoffice, a saw 
mill, four charcoal kilns, stock pens and a 
public school. Railroad ties, cattle and hogs, 
cotton and about 60 car loads of charcoal 
per month are the principal products 
shipped from this station. During 1911 there 
were erected in Ballard, 14 new dwellings, 
costing $4,200, and four business buildings, 
costing $1,600. The country surrounding 
Ballard is well adapted to general farm- 
ing, stock raising and the cultivation of 
fruit, berries and commercial truck. Fine, 
large springs abound in the vicinity and the 
landscape is unusually attractive. Fifty new 
families have settled in the vicinity during 
1911 and have improved 400 acres at a cost 
of $10,000. There were planted in orchard 
200 acres; in truck, 150; in strawber-ies, 50 
acres. Total acreage in cultivation, about 
8,000 acres. 

The shipments of surplus products 
amounted to three car loads of wheat, 10 
bales cotton, 15,000 pounds poultry. 1,000 
cases of eggs, 40 car load's of cattle, 5 of 



sheep, 32 of hogs, 45 of mining timber, 25 
of railroad ties, 56 of charcoal, 2,000 pounds 
of hides and 10,000 pounds of dairy pro- 
ducts. 

Land Values. — $10 to $40 per acre. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Re- 
tail merchants in various lines and pro- 
fessional men. 

Bunch, Okla., in Adair County, 272 miles 
from Kansas City, Mo. Altitude, 772 feet; 
population, 125. An immense bed of marble 
is situated a few hundred yards from this 
station. There are in Bunch, two hardwood 
saw mills, a grist mill, Methodist church, 
public school and three mercantile firms. 
Lumber and live stock, about 300 car loads 
of the former and ten of the latter, poultry, 
eggs, corn, farm produce are the principal 
shipments from this point. 

Cans, Okla., is in Sequoyah County, 299 
miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and has 500 
inhabitants. It is dependent for the present 
business entirely on its agricultural re- 
sources, which, however, are very abundant. 
Owing to the fact that the land sales in the 
vicinity have been under restrictions very 
little progress in development could be 
made until within the past year. Dur- 
ing 1910 one hundred new people set- 
tled in the town and twelve new dwell- 
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$7,000, and a new school house costing $8,898, 
were erected. Two new mercantile stocks 
were located and a new cotton gin was estab- 
lished, the latter at a cost of $1,500. The ad- 
jacent country received an immigration of 
twenty-five families, who purchased one 
thousand acres of land and placed five hun- 
dred acres of new land in cultivation at a 
cost of about $5,000. 

The lands in the vicinity of Gans are 
highly fertile and produce abundantly all 
staple crops, such as corn and cotton. Of 
cotton, the annual production is 900 bales. 
Potatoes are a staple crop here, producing 
twice during the year, the shipment varying 
from 5 to 15 carloads per annum. Canta- 
loupes, melons, strawberries, poultry and 
eggs, hardwood lumber and railroad ties, are 
among the surplus products which are ship- 
ped to the larger cities. 



Land Values. — $10 to $30 per acre. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Cloth- 
ing store, telephone exchange, printing 
oflace. Good opening for electric light plant, 
town growing rapidly. Coal deposits with- 
in 3 or 4 miles, which should be mined. Ad- 
dress Citizens Bank, Gans, Okla. 

Heavener, Oklahoma. — The present pop- 
ulation of Heavener is about 3,000. It 
is In Le Flore County and has been recently 
made a division terminus of the Kansas City 
Southern Railway. It is the junction point 
of this railway with its Waldron branch, 
the Arkansas Western Railroad, running 
easterly thirty-three miles through an ex- 
tensive coal belt and a fine fruit and truck 
country. The population has nearly trebled, 
within a year and since June, 1910, there 
have been erected 275 new dwellings, 
costing $160,000: twenty-one new brick 




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iBirdseye Vie-H' of Heavener, Oklahoma 



business buildings, costing $95,000. A munici- 
pal water works and electric light system 
costing $75,000, has been installed, and a 
warehouse, steam laundry and postoffice 
building are the latest acquisitions. The 
improvements made by the Kansas City 
Southern Railway exceed in cost $300,000. 
About $100,000 has been invested in mercan- 
tile ventures, the latest being the Pierce- 
McNeeley Grocery Company, $30,000; the 
Heavener Supply Company, $20,000, and the 
Grand Leader Dry Goods Company, !fl0,000. 
The Heavener Oil & Gas Company is mak- 
ing test borings in the vicinity and one 
coal company is operating a mine two miles 
from town. The improvements made by 
the Kansas City Southern Railway ('o. are 
extensive and include new round houses, 
repair shops, office buildings, depot, em- 
ployes' hotel, and several miles of new 
yard trackage. 

In a business way the town has two sub- 
stantial banks, which doubled their capital 
recently, two cotton gins, one hardwood 
mill and numerous mercantile es'ablish- 
ments, carrying stocks valued at more than 
a third of a million dollars. The town has 
a Baptist and Methodist church, fud ex- 
cellent school facilities, large commodious, 
well equipped school buildings and a thor- 
oughly competent corps of teachers. One 
new school building, costing $30,000, has 
recently been completed. 

The country nrijacent to Heavener is more 
or less hilly and in places mountainous, 
Tbpro is. however, ranch fine tillable land 
ar'l this is exceptionally fertile. Corn, cot- 
ton, potatoes, oats, forage of all kinds are 



easily and abundantly grown, and fruits, 
berries and truck are profitably produced. 
The hillsides yield grass abundantly, af- 
fording excellent pasturage about ten months 
in the year. The water supply is excellent 
in quality and abundant, there being numer- 
ous springs and small rapid flowing streams. 
The indications are that artesian water can 
be had in many places by boring for it. The 
town and a large area of the adjacent coun- 
try is underlaid with a fine vein of coal, 
which, in some places, is being mined for 
local consumption. The quality of this coal 
is excellent and there are good prospects for 
developing a great coal mining industry. 
Much fine timber, such as oak, pine, gum, 
hickory, abounds to the south, southeast 
and east of the town and several lumber 
mills are in operation. 

In agricultural lines the country is at- 
tractive and good tillable lands are excep- 
tionally cheap. The shipments of surplus 
products consist of cotton, poultry and 
eggs, hides and furs, hardwood and pine 
lumber and railway ties. For raising cat- 
tle, horses, mules, hogs and sheep no better 
facilties can be found than are available 
here. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Plumb- 
ing shop, sheet metal worker, electrical 
supply store, good lawyer. Good open- 
ing for a brick and tile plant, ice plant 
and cold storage, furniture factory, chair 
factory, cooperage, fruit box factory, coal 
mines, stone crusher. Available for manu- 
facture, large quantities of ash. oak. elm. 
hickory and gum timber. Address Secre- 
tary 10,000 Club. Heavener. Okla. 




Street Scene, Poteaii, Oklahoma 



Howe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma. This 
town is at the crossing of the Kansas City 
Southern and the Choctaw, Oklahoma & 
Gulf branch of the Rock Island Ry. System, 
333 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The 
population in 1912, was about 900, and most 
of the business done in town is mercantile, 
the handling of cotton, live stock and the 
mining and transport of coal. The company 
surrounding Howe is open prairie limited 
in area by the Sugar Loaf Mountains. 
The lands in the vicinity are claimed to 
be of exceptional fertility, particularly so 
in the Horse Shoe Bend of Poteau River 
and the Sugar Loaf Valley. Nearly all the 
country surrounding Howe is underlaid with 
coal deposits of excellent quality and there 
are several large coal mines and a large 
coke plant in the immediate vicinity. In 
Howe there are the State Bank and Trust 
Company, a large commodious hotel, a flour 
and grist mill, four cotton gins, a bottling 
works, a public school building, cost $12,000, 



telephone service, three or four churches 
and from ten to fifteen mercantile estab- 
lishments. Four or five substantial brick 
business buildings and a hotel costing 
$50,000 have been erected during the 
past two years, as well as ten or fif- 
teen dwellings, costing from $500 to $3,000 
each. 

The temporary segregation of the coal 
lands in this vicinity by the U. S. Govern- 
ment, has somewhat retarded immigration to 
this point and intending farmers have found 
it difficult to secure suitable lands. As 
the Government has now arranged to sell 
the surface of segregated lands, splendid 
opportunities will be available for thp agri- 
cultural home seeker. The shipments of 
surplus products amount to about 1,000 
bales of cotton, 20 to 30 car loads of live 
stock, several car loads of Irish potatoes, 
hardwood lumber and poultry and eggs. 
About fifty new families have settled in the 
adjacent country during the past year. 




Westville. Oklahoma 



Business Opportunities. — Wanted: A 
cannery, bakery. Good opening for a coke 
manufacturing industry, coal mines ; an elec- 
tric light plant would pay well. Address 
State Bank & Trust Company, Howe, Okla. 

IVIarble City, Oklahoma. — The things that 
go to make a prosperous town are al- 
most infinite in variety. Sometimes one sin- 
gle industry is sufficient, but frequently a 
variety of resources is the stimulus to 
growth. Marble City, Okla., has at the pres- 
ent time 750 inhabitants, and its principal 
dependence is on the agricultural resources 
of the adjacent country, the growing of corn, 
cotton, forage and live stock. Its principal 
asset is, however, an enormous marble de- 
posit, situated about three-quarters of a mile 
from town. This deposit, probably the larg- 
est in the United States, has been most thor- 



oughly tested and has been found to with- 
stand a compression of 14,270 pounds per 
square inch. It has been drilled into to a 
depth of 142 feet and is of excellent quality 
from top to bottom. The marble is found in 
five distinct colors and each takes a high 
polish and is pleasing to the eye. The supply 
is practically unlimited and the demand for 
a good marble is practically of the same di- 
mensions. Several Marble Companies were 
organized and the quarries were for some 
time scientifically operated. The financial 
disturbances of 1907 and the difficulties of 
getting the marole to the railway tracks 
made the industry temporarily unprofitable. 
Since then the companies have been reor- 
ganized and the difficulties of transportation 
ganized and the difficulties incident to 
transportation have also been overcome 
and there is nothing in the way now- 




Marble Quarries. Marble City. Oklahoma 




Street Scene, Poteau, Oklahoina 



of the development of an enormous indus- 
try. It is thought that when the industry 
is fully established, there will be ample 
employment for more than 500 men. The 
output of dressed and polished marble dur- 
ing the year 1911 consisted of 70 car loads, 
valued at $210,000. 

The country surrounding Marble City is 
agricultural and can be safely classed as a 
fine fruit-growing section. Not only is it a 
fine apple and peach country, but all the 
small fruits can be successfully and profit- 
ably grown. In the valleys and bottom lands 
along Sallisaw Creek and other streams, 
corn, potatoes and cotton are more or less 
extensively grown. 

During the year ending June 30, 1910, 
fifty new people have settled in the town 



and several new dwellings have been built 
Fifteen new families have settled on adja- 
cent farms, and 400 acres of new land have 
been improved at a cost of $10,000. Three 
new business houses, with stocks of $19,000, 
and the Citizens State Bank, capital $10,000, 
have been established within the year. 
Among the local manufacturing entcprises 
is a hardwood saw mill, the Kelley Cotton 
Gin, with a capacity of forty bales per day 
and an annual output of 700 bales, a grist 
mill, printing office and a newspaper. There 
are also in town twelve mercantile firms, 
a bakery, hotel, church and good public 
schools. Marble City is in Sequoyah 
County, Oklahoma, has an altitude of 729 
feet and is 281 miles south of Kansas City, 
Mo. 

Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. 




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Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Elec- 
tric light plant, lawyer, harness shop, furni- 
ture store, produce dealer, laundry, any kind 
of factory working hardwoods, feed store, 
shoe shop, large drug store, large dry goods 
store, physician. Address Agent K. C. S., 
Marble City, Okla. 

Page, Oklahoma, is in Le Flore County, 
south of Kansas City, Mo., 355 miles and 
has an altitude of 918 feet above sea level. 
The population is 175, many of whom are 
engaged in lumbering. In the vicinity are 
several coal outcroppings and an enormous 
bed of Grahamite, a substance similar to 
asphalt. In the town are two mercantile 
establishments, two hotels and a public 
school. The Buschaw-Blackwell Lumber Com- 
pany operates a saw and planing mill, and 



in addition to the products of this mill 
large shipments are made of railroad ties 
and hardwood lumber. The present cotton 
production is from fifty to seventy-five bales 
per annum. Owing to the restriction placed 
on the sale of Indian lands the settlement 
of the adjacent country has been slow here- 
tofore. New settlers are now coming in 
and more or less agricultural development 
is taking place. The agent of the K. C. S. 
Ry. can supply further information. 

Panama, Oklahoma. — This is the crossing 
point of the Kansas City Southern and the 
Midland Valley Railways and has a popula- 
tion of 500. It is south of Kansas City, Mo., 
317 miles and has an altitude of 453 feet. 
Coal mining is the principal local indus- 
try. The surrounding country is agri- 




Cotton Gin, Salliaaw, Oklahoma 




Good Fishing on SallisaiMr Creek 

cultural and is well farmed, produc- 
ing annually 7,000 to 8,000 bales of cot- 
ton and considerable livestock and grain. 
The institutions of the town consist of a 
cotton compress, cotton gin, a grist mill, 
public schools, churches. Bank of Panama, 
with a capital of $10,000, two hotels and 
about five substantial mercantile establish- 
ments. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Dry 
goods store, shoe shop, furniture store, 
hardware store, harness shop, bakery, 
clothing store, implement store, jewelry 
store, notion store, newspaper, physician, 
dentist, livery barn, cotton seed oil mill. 
Good opening for a brick plant, flour and 



grist mill, coal and oil development. Ad- 
dress Bank of Panama for information. 

Poteau, OKIahoma. — Where tne city of fo- 
teau, Okla., now stands there was thir- 
teen years ago a cotton patch near the base 
of a mountain. The National Government 
platted a townsite there and sold the lots. 
The Kansas City Southern and the St. Louis 
& San Francisco Railways crossed at this 
point, and the authorities decided that it 
was a good location for a town. Since that 
town lot sale there has been a steady, cer- 
tain and healthy growth; the citizenship 
was energetic and enterprising and today 
numbers 3,300. It is the county seat of Le 
Flore County, which has within its borders 
over 200 miles of railway. It is the center 
of the Oklahoma and Arkansas Coal District 
and is underlaid with coal and surrounded 
by coal deposits. Coal mining is the most 
important moustry at Poteau. Three exten- 
sive mines are operated in the immediate 
vicinity, two of which are within the city 
limits. When in full operation the average 
daily output is 100 carloads. The clay 
found in connection with the coal is excep- 
tionally good for the manufacture of vitri- 
fied brick. Immense beds of shale are also 
in evidence and some of them are used In 
the manufacture of paving brick, sewer pipe 
and tiling, etc. 

The surrounding country abounds in val- 
uable hardwoods, including oak, hickory, 
ash, gum, elm, sycamore, etc., affording good 
opportunities for the establishment of wood- 
working plants. There are in Poteau a spoke 
and handle factory employing 75 men; a 
pressed brick and tile plant, with a daily 
capacity of 20,000 bricks; a planing mill em- 
ploying 100 men, an electric light and ice 
plant, a municipal water works system, and 
several coal mines. The monthly payroll of 
Poteau is about $50,000. The assessed val- 
uation of taxable property in the city is be- 
tween one-half and three-quarters of a mil- 
lion dollars, and the municipality is entirely 




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free from debt. The city has two prosperous 
banks, some twenty-five or thirty mercantile 
houses carrying large stocks, four hotels, a 
fine public school building, seven religious 
congregations which have buildings of their 
own, two lumber yards and nearly all the 
minor industries common to a town of its 
population. During the year 1910 and 1911 
there were constructed thirty-two new 
dwellings, costing $25,000; ten brick busi- 
ness buildings, costing $30,000; a new ice 
plant, $20,000; a theater, $20,000; water 
works and sewers, $40,000; a cotton gin, 
$600; a canning plant, $500, and improve- 
ments on existing plants, $25,000. Much 
work was also done in grading and paving 
the streets. Eight new mercantile firms 
with stocks valued at $31,000 have estab- 
lished themselves, and three gas wells have 
been bored which have a daily capacity of 
14,000,000 cubic feet and a pressure of 
325 pounds to the square inch. On 
the farms adjacent to town 260 new fam- 



ilies have been settled and of these 150 pur- 
chased farm lands comprising 5,400 acres. 
Sixty new farms have been cleared and 
2,100 acres of new land have been brought 
under cultivation. 

The rolling hill and prairie lands imme- 
diately surrounding the town are as good as 
can be had for fruit and truck farming. 
Irish potatoes are grown twice a year on 
the same land and very large shipments are 
annually made of potatoes, as well as 
peaches, berries, cantaloupes, melons, poul- 
try and eggs. The receipts for cotton ship- 
ped run between half a million and three- 
quarter million dollars. In the bottom lands 
of Poteau River and Brazil Creek great 
crops of corn and cotton and forage are ob- 
tained. Crops of 60 to 80 bushels of corn, 
or one bale of cotton to the acre are not 
uncommon. Wheat and small grain yield 
as well here as elsewhere. 




Marketinii Cotton, Sallisa>v, Oklahoma 



Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Groc- 
ery stores, gents furnishing store, hard- 
ware and furniture store, hotel, notion or 
racket store, hide and fur buyer, produce 
dealer, tailor. Good openings for brick and 
tile plant, foundry, machine shop, furniture 
factory, wagon works, fruit box factory, flour 
and grist mill, sawmill, chair factory, coop- 
erage, fruit evaporators, coal mines. Raw 
material of every kind abundant and cheap 
gas and coal mined at home for fuel. Ad- 
dress Business Men's League, Poteau, Okla. 

Redlands, Oklahoma. — This village is sit- 
uated near the Arkansas river in Sequoyah 
County and has 100 inhabitants, most of 
whom are engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
The village is 306 miles south of Kansas 
City and has an altitude of 455 feet. The 
country surrounding it is very fertile and 
produces abundantly of corn, potatoes, cot- 
ton and livestock of which large shipments 
are made. In the village are five mercan- 
tile establishments and a cotton-wood saw 
mill. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Bank, 
drug store, physician. There is consider- 
able timber that could be manufactured. 
Address Agent K. C. S. Ry. for information. 

Sallisaw, Oklalioma. — This is the county 
seat of Sequoyah County, Okla., and has 
a population of about 4,400 people. It was 
platted about thirteen years ago at the 
junction of the Kansas City Southern and 
Missouri Pacific Railways. Its location is 
291 miles south of Kansas City, Mo. Salli- 
saw has made a steady growth from year 
to year, until the tribal lands were allotted 
to the individual members of the tribes, 
when a more rapid growth became possible. 
In the last three or four years the growth 
has been very rapid. There are in Sallisaw 
about seventy-five mercantile establishments 



five hotels, four restaurants, five cotton 
gins, one cottonseed oil mill and three pros- 
perous banks. It has stores in which stocks 
of $25,u00 to $40,000 are carried and a busi- 
ness of $125,000 is annually transacted. A 
majority of the leading stores do a business 
of $40,000 to $80,000 a year. It is a modern 
little city, having a water works system, 
electric light plant, telephone service, well 
graded streets and paved sidewalks, etc., 
and is expanding in all directions. 

The two trunk lines of railroad passing 
through Sallisaw transport annually from 
12,000 to 15,000 bales of cotton. During 1910 
this cotton was worth and sold for $75 per 
bale, bringing to this city the sum of over 
$1,000,000. Now this is for the cotton crop, 
one item only. Among the products of agri- 
culture shipped last year were also large 
consignments of peaches, cantaloupes, straw- 
berries, poultry, eggs, potatoes and corn, 
worth approximately $52,000, to which should 
be added the value of 20 carloads of cattle, 
two of horses and mules and three of fat 
hogs. 

There are in the city four churches of 
different Protestant denominations, a new 
five-grade school building costing $30,000, 
and another school building for the younger 
children. The school attendance is about 
900, and fifteen teachers are permanently 
employed. During 1910 and 1911, the city 
improvements consisted of eighty-five new 
dwellings, costing $100,000; eleven modem 
business buildings, costing $60,000; a new 
factory, $8,200; two new churches, new 
postoffice, two lodge halls, theater, public 
amusement park, public school building, 
$25,000; water works system, $60,000, and 
enlargements — and miscellaneous improve- 
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Amoa Brothers Handle Factory. Poteao, Oklahoma 



Among the new mercantile and manufac- 
turing enterprises are a clothing house with 
a stock valued at $10,000; a dry goods house 
$8,000; a general merchandise stock, $20,- 
000; six other stocks, valued at $10,000; 
a lumber mill, cotton gin, planing mill and 
a handle factory. The capital stock of the 
three banks is $30,000. 

Sallisaw offers many attractions to the 
homeseeker, and a man looking for a new 
location makes a bad mistake if he fails to 
examine the adjacent country and the city. 
Lands are very good and very cheap, the 
climate is everything that can be desired, 
public health is good and the people are 
progressive and wide awake. The Sallisaw 
Commercial Club will cheerfully furnish any 
desired information about town and country. 
Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Hard- 
ware and implement store, shoe store, notion 
or racket store, meat market, coal yard. 
Good opening for a broom factory, tannery, 
brick and tile plant, flour mill, creamery, 
sawmill and coal mines. An abundance 
of coal and hardwoods. Address Sallisaw 
Bank & Trust Co., Sallisaw, Okla. 

Shady Point, OklaJioma. — This is a coal 
mining town at the junction of the K. C. S. 
Railway and the Poteau Valley Railroad. 
The town has a population of 300 and is 320 
miles south of Kansas City, Mo. The sur- 
rounding country is fertile and produces 
annually from 600 to 800 bales of cotton 
and from 25 to 50 carloads of livestock, most- 
ly cattle and hogs. The Sequoyah Coal Min- 
ing Co., operating at Sutter, Okla., ships 
daily from six to ten car loads of coal. In 
the town are three substantial mercantile 
firms, a cotton gin, grist mill. Baptist 
church and public school. 

Land Values.— $10 to $30 per acre. 
Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Hard- 
ware store, restaurant. Opening for coal 
mine operators. Address Agent K. C. S. 
Ry., Shady Point, Okla. 

Spiro, Oklahoma. — The city of Spiro is 
south of Kansas City, Mo., 312 miles, and 
west of Fort Smith, 16 miles. It is the junc- 
tion point of the main line of the Kansas 
City Southern Railway and its Fort Smith 
branch. The population for 1912 is given at 
2,600, showing an increase of 140 over the 
preceding year. During 1911-12 fifteen 
new dwellings and two substantial business 
buildings were erected at a cost of $34,500. 
preceding year. During the year fifteen 
new dwellings and one substantial business 
^uilding were erected at a cost of $18,000. 
The municipality also installed a water 
works plant costing $40,000. and improved 
ItB electric light plant and city park at a cost 



of $8,000. In the adjacent country one hun- 
dred and ten families have settled on farms 
and have brought under cultivation 2, SOU 
acres of new land, involving an outlay of 
$30,000 for improvements. 

The auuual production of cotton in the 
immediate vicinity of Spiro is from 10,000 
to 12,000 bales, and large quantities from oth- 
er places are also handled here. Potatoes 
are grown on a large scale, the annual ship- 
ments varying from 100 to 600 carloads. The 
bottom lands near Spiro are most excellently 
adapted to the cultivation of these crops. 
The hill lands or uplands are good for gen- 
eral farming operations and also splendidly 
adapted to the cultivation of fine fruits and 
commercial truck. A few miles west of 
Spiro are large areas of prairie lands, well 
adapted to general farming and stock raising. 
Along the Arkansas River and north, east 
and south of Spiro there is much good oak, 
hickory and cottonwood timber, which could 
be manufactured. A good quality of coal 
is convenient to town, but is being mined 
only in a small way. In the township there 
are 6,000 acres of coal land and one vein 
between four and one-half and five feet thick 
is known to extend to within one-half mile 
of the city. Coal is being hauled direct from 
the mines, three to five miles away. With- 
in a half mile of town is an inexhaustible 
deposit of fine brick shale, and building stone 
of excellent quality is found on the edge 
of town. 

There are in Spiro two large cotton gins 
and a compress, two prosperous banks, two 
churches, an opera house, local and long 
distance telephone service, a brick plant, 
some thirty mercantile establishments, the 
largest of which do a business of $60,000 to 
$75,000 annually. 

Land Values, — $20 to $50 per acre. 
Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Shoe 
shop, furniture store, implement and hard- 
ware store, harness shop, jewelry store, 
tin shop. Democratic newspaper, axe handle 
factory, chair and table factory, physician, 
lawyer, dentist. Good opening for a can- 
nery, creamery, sawmill, fruit evaporator, 
cooperage, wheelbarrow factory, ice plant. 
Coal and cheap gas for fuel. Hardwoods of 
all kinds in abundance. Address Choctaw 
Commercial Bank, Spiro, Okla. 

Stiiwell, Oklahoma. — This town is ^aa 
miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and lies 
on the slope of the Boston Mountains, be- 
ing 400 feet higher than any other town 
within forty miles. The population, 1910. 
was 2,300. The business part of the town is 
substantially built of brick and stone, the 
residence portion having many neat and at- 



tractive frame buildings. There are in Stil- 
well two banks, fifteen or twenty mercantile 
establishments, hotels, schools, churches, and 
several large cotton gins. The town haa 
been visited by several disastrous fires with- 
in the past few years, but the new buildings 
have been constructed of fire-proof ma- 
terials. 

Stilwell has enjoyed a steady growth since 
the platting of the town. Since the allot- 
ment of the Indian lands to individuals the 
growth has been more rapid and during the 
past two years there were ei'ected sixty 
new dwellings, costing $110,800, and four- 
teen business buildings, costing $60,000. 
Among the new structures are two factory 
buildings, costing $10,000; two theaters, 
$15,000; water works plant, $25,000; electric 
light plant, $25,000; a steam laundry, bot- 
tling works, hotel, $6,000. Four new mer- 
chants established themselves in business. 
Fifteen new families established their 
homes on farm lands in the adjacent coun- 
try and have placed in cultivation 1,600 
acres of new land at a cost of $6,000. 
The shipments of surplus products for 1910 
amounted to 800 bales of cotton, 1,800 
pounds of poultry. 200 cases of eggs, 10 car- 
loads of cattle, 12 carloads of hogs, 1 car- 
load of sheep and 35 carloads of hardwood 
lumber and railroad ties. Two new mer- 
chants, with stocks valued at $5,000, lo- 
cated in town during the year. 

The surrounding country is rich agricul- 
tural land, adapted to the standard field 
crops, as well as to the raising of commer- 
cial fruit and truck. Corn produces from 
forty to seventy-five bushels and wheat 20 
to 25 bushels to the acre. The ordinary 
yield of cotton is from one-half to one bale 
per acre. Tree fruits and berries yield 
handsome crops and with poultry and eggs 
will become an important item of income. 

The country is well grassed and forage of 
all kinds is easily grown. The water sup- 
ply is excellent, and the climate such that 
stock raising can be carried on very profit- 
ably. All conditions are favorable to the 
profitable production of beef, pork, horses 
and mules and poultry. 

Good oak timber and other hardwoods are 
abundant near Stilwell and there are good 
openings for a wood-working industry. 
Among the available resources which in 
time will be developed are hardwood lum- 
ber, building stone, zinc and lead ores, com- 
mercial fruit and truck growing, the rais- 
ing of live stock and general farming. 
Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. 

Business Opportunities. — Wanted: Cloth- 
ing store, dentist. Good opening for a 



cannery, wagon factory. Address Bank of 
Stilwell, Stilwell, Okla. 

Watts, Adair County.— South of Kansas 
City, Mo., 236 miles, altitude 96 feet, popu- 
lation 250. A new division terminal of the 
K. C. S. Ry., which is rapidly growing into 
a prosperous business town. In addition 
to the railway improvements, exceeding in 
cost $175,000, comprising yard tracks, en- 
gine house, hotel, yard offices, etc., there 
were constructed by private enterprise 25 
new dwellings, costing $20,000; 10 busi- 
ness buildings, costing $10,000; two hotels, 
costing $17,000. Numerous new cottages 
are in course of construction. All the im- 
provements have been made in the course 
of a year. 

The surrounding country is well suited 
for stock raising, poultry raising, fruit, 
berry and truck growing and for general 
farming operations. The adjacent country 
is receiving many new settlers and new- 
farms are being opened up. 

Westville, Okialioma. — Westville, Adair 
County, is a crossing point on the Kansas 
City Southern Railway and a branch of the 
St. Louis & San Francisco Railway. It is 
244 miles south of Kansas City, Mo., and 
has an altitude of 1,137 feet. The location 
is a very good one, owing to the very large 
scope of fertile country surrounding it. 
The present population is about 1,200. The 
town is now rapidly growing, because the 
adjacent lands are now in market and can 
be had at a moderate price. During the year 
1910, twenty new dwellings, costing $18,000, 
two hotels, $4,000, an electric light plant, 
$4,000, were completed, and bonds for a 
water works plant to cost $28,000 were 
voted. Concrete sidewalks have been 
ordered for all parts of town. 

Forty-five new families settled in the ad- 
jacent country and purchased 1,100 acres of 
farm lands. Twenty-seven new farms were 
opened during the year, and 980 acres of 
new land were put under cultivation at an 
outlay of $20,000. The shipments of sur- 
plus products from Westville amounted dur- 
ing the past year to thirty carloads of 
wheat. 5,000 bales of cotton, worth about 
$75 per bale, 20.000 pounds of poultry, 2,000 
cases of eggs, 44 carloads of cattle 15 car- 
loads of hogs, 5 carloads of oats, 8 of apples, 
and 30,000 pounds of hides, pelts and furs. 

Nearly all the business buildings in West- 
ville are constructed of brick and stone, 
and in addition to some fifteen or twenty 
mercantile establishments, the town has a 
large modern flour mill, an electric light 
plant, two banks, a large modern school 
building and several churches. 

The farm lands at Westville are fertile. 



the country gently undulating and quite 
level in places. Good water is abundant 
everywhere. The corn production is from 
forty to sixty bushles per acre, that of wheat 
15 to 25 bushels, and oats, small grain and 
forage yield fine crops. Cotton is grown ex- 
tensively, and there is enough grown of 
corn, wheat and cotton to maintain a flour 
mill and grain elevator and several large 
cotton gins. 

Stock raising can be carried on economic- 
ally and profitably, as the country is well 
grassed and supplied with nutritious forage 
grasses. Beef, pork and mutton can be pro- 
duced here at a minimum cost. Owing to 
the altitude and most excellent quality of 
the water there is hardly ever any disease 
among the live stock. Some feeding must 



be done in January, February and March, 
but the cost is very small compared with 
the cost of feeding in more northerly lati- 
tudes. Poultry and eggs are important 
sources of income, and being convenient to 
the great markets like Kansas City and St. 
Louis yield a handsome profit. 

The commercial fruit and truck industry 
has not been fully developed, because until 
quite recently only a small acreage of suit- 
able lands could be had for this purpose. 
Apples, peaches, cherries and strawberries 
are produced in considerable quantity and 
have yielded a good profit. The People's 
Bank, Westville, Okla., will be pleased to 
furnish any desired information. 

Land Values. — $10 to $25 per acre. 



Homeseekers' Round Trip Tickets 

To points in Oklahoma and return, limited to twenty-five days, are on sale at very 
low rates, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, from points in Illinois, Wis- 
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, 
while from points east to Illinois, tne rates are slightly higher. 

Stop-overs, on round trip homeseekers' tickets to Oklahoma points on K. C. S. Ry. 
will be allowed on both going and return trip at any point on K. C. S. Ry. soutk of 
Jaudon, Mo. 

For rates, address S. G. Warner, G. P. A., Kansas City, Mo. 



Household Goods and Elmi^rant Movables 

The term "Household Goods and Emigrant Movables" will apply to property of 
an intending settler only, and will include tools and implements of calling (including 
hand and foot power machines, but not including machinery driven by steam, electric- 
ity, gas, gasoline, compressed air or water, other than agricultural implements) ; second- 
hand store fixtures of merchants; second-hand vehicles (not including self-propelling 
vehicles, hearses and similar vehicles); livestock, not to exceed ten (10) head (sub- 
ject to declared valuations and premium charges); trees and shrubbery; lumber and 
shingles; fence posts, one portable house; seeds for planting purposes; feed for lire 
stock while in transit, and household goods, but does not include general merchandise, 
nor any articles which are intended for sale or speculation. Shipments of emigrant 
movables must contain a sufficient quantity ot furniture to make the intention of a 
permanent residence at destination evident. Information about Freight rates can 1) > 
obtained by addressing R. R. Mitchell, General Freight Agent, Kansas City, Mo. 



Immigration Department, K. C. S. Ry. 

WM. NICHOLSON, Immigration Agent Kansas City, Mo. 

J. HOLLISTER TULL, Agriculturist Mena Ark. 



KANSAS CITY SOtTIlEKN RAILWAY CO. 
TKXAHKANA & 1 OHT SMITH RAILWAY CO. 
ARKANSAS WKSTERN RAILWAY CO. 

J. A. KDSON President 

J. F. HOLDEN Vice-President 

R. J. McCARTY Vice-President and Auditor 

S. Q. WARNER ; General Passenger and Ticket Agent 

R. R. MITCHELL General Freight Agent 

GENERAL OFFICES. KANSAS CITY, MO. 

BEAUMONT, T£X. 

J. L. BOYD General Agent 

R. A. MORRIS (T. & Ft. S. R'y) City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

CHICAGO, ILL., niarquette Bids. 

J. o. HAMILTON General Agent 

DALLAS, TEX., Slanehter BIdiC. 

A. CATUNA ■ • General Cotton Agent 

HENRY BROWN General Agent 

PORT SMITH, ARK. 

H. N. HALL General Agent 

K. DICKERSON City Pass, and Ticket .Vgent 

HOUSTOX, TE:X., Commercial Bank Balldlns. 

G. M. RILEY General Agent 

JOPL.IN, MO. 

C. W. NUNN General Agent 

iJ. JOSEPH Depot Ticket Agent 

ij. S. HALL City Solicitor and Ticket Agent 

KANSAS CITY, MO.. 911 Walnut Street. 

J.. V. BEATTY General Agent 

•J. A. McM ANUS City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

M. O. BELLIS Depot Ticket Agent 

LAKB CHARLES, LA., 824 Ryan Street 

F. R. HASKILL Commercial Agent 

J. R. MUSTAIN City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

MENA, ARK. 

W. C. B. ALLEN General Agent 

J. HOLLISTKR TULI Vgriculturalist 

.MOW ORLEANS. LA., Gil Hibernia Bank Bldg. 

J. M. CARRlERE General Agent 

NBW YORK, 3«6 Broadway. 

.1. P. KNIGHT General Agent 

I'lTTSBUltG, PA., 142!» New Oliver Bldg. 

D. S. ROBERTS General Agent 

I'URT ARTUtR, TEX. 

C. W. LITHERLANl) City Passongoi- and Ticket .V^ent 

ST. LOUIS, MO , Cliemical Bldg. 

T. E. HAYWARD, Jr General Agent 

SAN ANTONIO, TEX , 314 Gunter Bldg 

C. M. WILKINSON Commercial Agent 

SlIltEVCPORT, LA., Caddo Hotel Bldg. 

A. H. VAN LOAN General Agent 

A. B. AVERY Union Station Ticket Agent 

J. W. NORTON City Pass, and Tkt. Agent 

TBXARKANA, TEX 

.S. G. HOPKINS (T. & .S. V. It's ) Gon. Passenger and Ticket Agent 

J. L. LONTKOWSKY (T. & Ft. S. R'y) City Pass, and Ticket Agent 

KANSAS CITY. !»IO., Thayer Bldg. 

WM. NICHOLSON Immigration Agent 

C. O. WILLIAMS Traveling Passenger Agent 

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